Rants on Cycling and on Life:
Photos of people and bicycles that pass in front of my camera

7.30.2004

sam, sam, the fruit stand manafter graduating college I moved into a small apartment in Adams Morgan with fellow St. Mary's College graduate Sam Jannotawe were out of college and unsure what to do with our newly acquired adult statusI took the natural/easy route and leaped right into my summer/winter jobs of years past that I loved so much; messenger workI worked a mixture of commission work on my bicycle and set wage work on my motorcyclethe bicycle stuff was the basic delivery and filing stuffwhile the motorcycle stuff was occasionally a bit more uniquethere were people to tail, history to view, and fat pay checks to collectwell, honestly, most of the time it was a Snooze....a great place to relax after a night in the barssam on the otherhand was not sure what to do with his time and adult options

I am not entirely clear how he decided upon this jobit really worked in the short termsam became the fruit stand man at 17th and L Streetit was not an easy job with its early hours for fruit pickup and preworkday set upbut it had its perkssam with his calm cool hippie persona and his brown bedroom eyes soon found that women from all over the surrounding blocks wanted his fruitthis fruit stand was the gateway to his dating scenein an age long before Match.com Sam had a personal goldmine!

our stay together in Adams Morgan was short livedsam was being torn in various directionslate nights at the bars and early mornings at the fruit stands were wearing him outthere was an opening at a group house with some musician friends of his that he had to take

I moved to a group house in Columbia Heights and Sam moved to a group house in College Park

we all missed having the fruit stand hook up when he was goneas well as the sound of his keyboards slamming and entertaining a post bar crowd at 2am

I have fond or perhaps humorous memories of our shared spaceand our having to learn how to coexist in the adult worldthe basic group house dynamics with two rather than moreI would paint a picture of itbut just imagine Felix Unger and Oscar Madison a few years younger, never married, never divorced, and not quite sure how to balance the different personalities

it has been a decade since I spoke with Sam Sam the Fruit Stand Manbut I did try to "reach out and touch him"talked with his wife a few timescaught up with herwe shared a giggletalked about Sam, life, and parenthoodlearned that Sam is still living the simple lifetrying to follow the path of "quality of life"still playing musicfather and husbandand he may even have a dog or twohe not unlike me married a lisalisas are the best

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